Ubuntu is not incorrectly configuring a "second" card for your laptop. Your sound hardware is comprised of a dsp and a codec. The codec is driven by snd-ac97-codec and is listed as the Realtek ALC202. It is simply the OSS perspective of the same ALSA device (ALSA allows for emulating OSS).
Your real issue appears to be an acpi one. ** Changed in: alsa-lib (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: alsa-lib => linux-source-2.6.15 ** Summary changed: - Ubuntu configures incorrectly configures extra sound card + Via hardware plays sounds sluggishly, takes unreasonably long to log into graphical desktop session while playing login sound -- Via hardware plays sounds sluggishly, takes unreasonably long to log into graphical desktop session while playing login sound https://launchpad.net/bugs/59600 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
